Questions for Bobby Kennedy’s Adviser Charles Eisenstein
Re: "How to Heal the Wound of Gaza”
As “Director of Messaging” Charles Eisenstein is a member of the Kennedy presidential campaign and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s inner circle.
On June 13 Mr. Eisenstein penned a lengthy essay on Substack, “How to Heal the Wound of Gaza,” advocating a peace plan for Palestine. It’s worth reading. On its face it appears to be a strong dissent from Kennedy’s reprehensible support for the Israeli holocaust of the past eight months.
However, there are portions of his statement that are regrettably reflective of vestiges of (perhaps unconscious) Zionist hubris, and these need to be addressed. For example, Mr. Eisenstein describes Palestinian nationalists as “anti-Semites” while their Zionist tormentors are profiled as merely “Fascists.” There’s a subtle difference. An anti-Semite is a racist. A Fascist is an authoritarian. There is not necessarily a racist component to Fascism (before he fell under Hitler’s malevolent influence, approximately one-quarter of dictator Benito Mussolini’s Fascist movement was comprised of Judaic people).
Thus, Eisenstein posits racist Palestinians in a war with merely authoritarian (“Fascist”) Zionists. An equation like that is sorely unbalanced—predicated on either Mr. Eisenstein’s ignorance, or his suppression of Zionism’s weaponization of the ferocious anti-gentile racism of the Talmud Bavli (Talmud of Babylon); a murderous bigotry which pervades the Israeli leadership.
He also proposes to disarm the Palestinian terrorists while the Israeli terrorists will retain their weapons. This renders his plan unworkable from any practical standpoint.
I e-mailed him to raise these points. I would not have done so except for the fact that I have have been informed by a friend who knows of him that Mr. Eisenstein is a decent man frustrated by Kennedy’s contempt for the Palestinian people.
My challenge to Charles Eisenstein follows below.
After it was e-mailed I was courteously contacted by Patsy Kuo Eisenstein, a lady who appears to be his wife. She promised to forward my e-mail to Charles, which is where matters stand at present.
Dear Mr. Eisenstein
Your essay “How to Heal the Wound of Gaza,” confirms that you are a utopian, creating equivalencies between the oppressed and the oppressor; a “both sides are right / both sides are wrong” notion which, to qualify as true and sincere, you must also apply to World War II Nazis and Jews. Will you?
I challenge you to substitute Nazi for Israeli, and Jew for Palestinian, and let’s see whether you will continue to uphold your blurring of distinctions between the oppressor and the oppressed.
There is no peace without truth. The gospel peace which Jesus grants began with an acknowledgement of the overwhelming evil of the Pharisees (Matthew 23: 13-36). These proto-Talmudists were targets of severe invective Jesus employed contra no other group; whereas for the Roman centurion He reserved among the highest words of praise He ever uttered, “Greater faith than this I have not found in all Israel” (Matthew 8: 5-10).
Your equation of the robbed and massacred Palestinians with homicidal war-Zionists, as they have weaponized the racist Talmud Bavli in seeking the extrusion and extermination of the indigenous people of Palestine, is the pipe dream of a naive and seriously uninformed observer, who nonetheless appears to be a man of good heart and spirit.
Lastly, I will take under advisement your supposition that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unconscionable support for the genocide in Gaza is due not to venal political and monetary motives, but a deluded misreading of history and current events. But I doubt it.
Michael Hoffman https://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/news.html
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so sad, for me and the world. I was soooo excited and believe RFK could have had a groundswell of ex-Bernie bros. Bernie raised millions from us and an army of texters, phone calls. I support so much of what he supports, but his stubborn insistence on looking the other way as tens of thousands are blown to bits, starved, their libraries, schools and hospitals ruined forever, not to mention their homes. No other word besides genocide.
and as you point out, this is an indigenous people. perhaps Charles would cheer on our genocide of the native peoples that were here when we "founded" America. I feel so badly to see well-intentioned people so captured by the "both sidism" and "woke" culture. was a dem all my life until I had to leave during the last election cycle and I am so sick of the righteous hatred of both sides, but especially the woke crowd. many of my friends/acquaintances are in that crowd and it's frustrating and maddening but I care for them.
Katya here.
Charles Eisenstein. He's enormously popular. He's sort of a sacred warrior for justice in the tikkun olam way. See his website for a 6 minute oration on "Moving Towards Interbeing".
A friend, a Franciscan Deacon, sent me Eisenstein's book, "Sacred Economies" years ago, with the exhortation: must read. I hadn't yet read any of Michael Hoffman and did not know what "conjunction of opposites" meant, but everywhere stumbled across deep contradictions and shallow glosses of history to arrive at a "What the Bleep Do We Know" (remember that movie?) summation of world woes in the history of money. Also a kind of precursor to "you will own nothing and be happy" . Truly seductive reading with lovely language and utopian ideas and an elegant solution to everything.
Here's a quote: "Debt can endure forever. Wealth cannot, because it's physical dimension is subject to the laws of entropy." --Frederick Soddy, an economist of the 30's that he admires, p. 203, under chapter 12, on Negative Interest Economies.
On p. 454, in a discussion of quantum money, he quotes his "dear ex-wife, Patsy : " Money is not yours until you spend it."
Ah, the poetry of disguise and the credo of our consumer society. And the New Age religion.
On his essay "How to Heal the Wound of Gaza": I understand (despite my little brain) that Christ's combat with the Pharisees was mortal, and that he nowhere in the Gospel granted them amnesty. Salvation is not amnesty (correct me if I'm wrong).
St. John Chrysostom tells us that repentance involves first of all contrition -- recognition and responsibility for your sins BEFORE there can be forgiveness.
But sin isn't part of Eisenstein's thinking, and he quotes Rosseau and Marx frequently. And did he miss the part of one of Finkelstein's recent interviews about 97% of Israelis approving the destruction of Gaza? Still, E's writing is hauntingly seductive. "The righting of historical wrongs will emerge indirectly." ????? Creative solution: "Two states, one Homeland."
But what of all the Palestinian blood that has been shed? What of all the murdered children? This sounds like The Grand Inquisitor (tho' I told my Franciscan friend that E didn't seem to have read Dostoevsky, especially not "Crime and Punishment".) E mentions Christ twice in his book on Sacred Economies, if not disrespectfully, somewhat dismissively.
Sorry to be so wordy!!! But Eisenstein has captured young, New Age minds and is a force to be reckoned with.
In short: when is a door not a door?